[Dovecot] Inbox weirdness

1 Sep 2005

      I recently had a system crash and my inbox became inaccessible via IMAP.
ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 4096 Sep  1 07:54 /var/spool/mail
ls -l /var/spool/mail/ignacio
-rw-rw----  1 ignacio mail 7222021 Sep  1 07:54 /var/spool/mail/ignacio
/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND
UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE] Logged in as
ignacio
A142 SELECT INBOX
imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission
denied
imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file
/var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied
imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission
denied
imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file
/var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied
A142 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information.
[2005-09-01 08:00:34]

rpm -q dovecot
dovecot-(none):0.99.14-4.fc4.i386
System is running Fedora Core 4. SELinux is not a factor in the problem.
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/private/dovecot.conf
Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this issue.
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams